Lambert Schmithausen

Yogachara (Sanskrit: Yogācāra) is an influential tradition of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing the study of cognition, perception, and consciousness through the interior lens of meditation, as well as philosophical reasoning (hetuvidyā). Yogachara was one of the two most influential traditions of Mahayana Buddhism in India, along with Madhyamaka. The compound Yogācāra literally means "practice of yoga", or "one whose practice is yoga", hence the name of the school is literally "the…